Hi Fayad. 

Thank you for the quick reply. 
I tried to create the file in user's home directory, and then move to the 
/etc, but then i would get a permission error moving the file to that 
directory.
It worked after i changed the ownership of /etc from root to the user, but 
i'm not sure if that's a proper way to do. Is it ok for the /etc directory 
to be owned by the user but not root?

thank you

On Friday, July 21, 2017 at 9:38:49 AM UTC-4, Fayad wrote:
>
> Try these options
>
> Copy the file to the sudo user's home directory or any other directory 
> where the user has got permission.
>
> Or
>
> Increase the permissions of the destination directory so that user can 
> write into that directory.
>
>
>
> Fayad
>
> Sent from my OnePlus One
>
> On 21-Jul-2017 6:33 PM, "Yuriy Buha" <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
>> Hello. 
>>
>> I have similar case, and i get this error, but i do need to create it as 
>> sudo user. I do not have root privilege.
>> Can someone please advise?
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> On Friday, May 6, 2016 at 11:44:08 AM UTC-4, Kai Stian Olstad wrote:
>>>
>>> On 06. May 2016 14:46, Sanjay Kumar wrote: 
>>> > I am not able copy to remote host, getting not writable error, my 
>>> playbook 
>>> > is here. 
>>> > 
>>> > --- 
>>> >  - hosts: all 
>>> >    become: yes 
>>> >    become_user: sanjay 
>>> >    become_method: sudo 
>>> >    tasks: 
>>> >      - name: copy some file 
>>> >        copy: src=/home/sanjay/messages dest=/etc 
>>>
>>> become_user: sanjay, means Ansible will do a sudo to user sanjay. So 
>>> sanjay need permission to the destination. 
>>>
>>> I guess what you really want is become_user: root , which is the 
>>> default. 
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Kai Stian Olstad 
>>>
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